Genetically Altered Babies

The story that was my spring board into this story was a story on ABC nightly news called Save a Dying Child, Have Another. It was extremely interesting and in that story I think there are a lot of ideas that could be very controversial and are very important issues today in America. The basic idea is there is a family that had a dying child who needed a almost perfect bone marrow transplant to save her life. So doctors took a bunch of fertilized eggs from the parents and examined them to see which would be the best match for the dying child. Then they took the rest of the fertilized eggs and put them in a freezer and implanted the closest matching egg into the mother. When the mother had the baby the doctor then took the marrow from the umbilical cord and transplanted it with the child. Both children are alive and healthy today but there are many questions that arise from this story. Is it okay to take fertilized eggs or potential lives and discard them and freeze them? Is science getting to the point of being able to change DNA or cells in babies? There are also stories about scientists who combine 2 eggs from different mothers to manipulate the babies genes, is that okay? Is it okay for a scientist or doctor to play a “God” like role in the lives of unborn children? I’m hoping to find out all of the answers to these questions and more. For more info on Save a Dying Child, Have Another check out the ABC news link on my blog.